~~Weigh In Here: St. Patrick's Day Challenge - Shed 15-20 Pounds!~~ GROUP CLOSED

The numbers listed after your screen name are: height, weight at start of challenge, current weight in bold, loss during challenge in parenthases.  We weigh in every Monday between January 7th and March 17th.  Let's do this people! 

#1   therealbetsy    5'8     220.5    213.0    (-7.5)

#2   crazyraccoon1   5'2    160.2    151.4    (-8.8)

#3   gonnabeskinnyagain    5'10

#4   danibelle414    5'5    281.2    271.4    (-9.8)

#5    schandler    5'2   116    111    (-5)

#6   4square    4'11.75    163.4    158.4    (-5)

#7   jennymarie    5'3    150    150    (-0)

#8   moxx    5'8    270    260    (-10)

#9   susiekitten    5'7    139    136.5  (-2.5)

#10  lauraswier    5'9    214

#11 faithymom    5'5.5    215    204.5    (-10.5)

#12 valerieanne    5'4.5   179    175.2    (-3.8)

#13 danij323    160

#14 betharoo2u    5'5    165    158.5    (-6.5)

#15 mauntler    5'3    141    138.4    (-2.6)

#16 sarahbethmonster    5'7    154    149    (-5)

#17 omercedes    5'8    200   198   (-2)

#18 b_s_w    5'2    120    115    (-5)

#19 bcorrigan    5'3    145    143    (-2)

#20 nurse280    5'6    136    133.2    (-2.8)

#21 almareal    167    161.0    (-6)

#22 vivmcl    189    181    (-8)

#23 mcmama    5'3    177

#24 juula    5'2    114    110.2    (-3.8)

#25 preacherboy    5'9    213.4    206.2    (-7.2)

#26 dkgraves    5'6    179.5    175    (-4.5)

#27 thomacry    5'4    160    159    (-1)

#28 johannamoon    5'8    263.8    259.8    (-4)

#29 cjackson03    5'7    180

#30 jubees    5'8    260    256    (-4)

Thanks for the link, if you want to , or can add, my height is 5'4.5, and my current weight is 179.....

 

Thanks for doing this!

Can my DH preacherboy join in on the challenge to be #25??  Tried lastnight but you had already closed that one.  His weight is 113.4 and he wants to lose 15 lbs by St. Patricks Day.  Oh he is 5'9".

Of course!  How exciting!  Is he 213.4?  I hope he is not 113.4!  Yes, they closed the thread last night before I had a chance to say anything - those moderators are fast!
I will try to clean up the post and pretty it up if I am up early enough tomorrow. :o)

ooops yep it is 213.4 sorry about that....lol

 

I'm sorry, Betsy -- I thought since you had "closed" your group that the sign ups were done -- my bad (we try not to have multiple threads on the same subject open). 

You're good now, though, right? 

No Problem Coach!  I appreciate all of your help.  Thanks, Betsy 

Ahh working on this list now huh?  How r u Betsy?

Yes, trying to work on it...procrastinating on packing!  EEEK!

Okay everyone!  I think I have all of the info up.  If I have mistyped anything, please let me know and I will edit.  I may have misspelled your name or missed some of your info.  Please doublecheck for me and let me know!!!
Okay, going to pack now. 

Betsy the 188.8 was my beginning weight, and my current weight is 163.4 so that needs to be changed or it will look like I lost 25 pounds really fast...lol.  Thanks, by the way I wish I could lose it that fast!!

edit:  Thank you Betsy, I see you changed it

You are welcome 4square!
Our first weigh-in will be one week from today!  Enjoy yourself tonight and be safe!

Looks great Betsy! Thanks for the hard work! And Happy New Year!

You are welcome danibelle.  I am glad to do it.  I ate way too much last night (New Year's Eve) and it wasn't even that great.  Ugh.  Why do I do that?  Oh well, that was last year, right?!?  I have only been losing about 1 pound a week lately and I do not like that.  I realize it is better than gaining or maintaining, but this year I want to lose 2 pounds a week.  If I lose 2 a week, I will be donning a new swimsuit by summer!  If I only lose 1 pound a week, I will not be to my goal until Christmas!  ACK!
Okay, so what I want to do is continue to burn around 2600 calories a day (or more) and consume 1800 calories a day to start.  Then I can see how much I lose a week while doing that.  I want to keep drinking 3 liters or more of water a day and I actually want to stop drinking Pepsi for real now.  I love the stuff and am a true addict, but I am going to buy flavored water today and diet Dr. Pepper too.  I need something to offer myself when I want the Pepsi.  Then I am going to ask myself every time I want a Pepsi, "Do you really want a Pepsi?  Or do you want a new bathing suit and a pair of size 10 blue jeans instead of size 18?"  I hope this helps me!!!!!  ARGH ARGH ARGH!!!!

Hi everyone. 

The lock-in was a huge success lastnight.  Every other year we have had a bad attitude problem with at least one teen but lastnight was perfect.  We had fun all night long and stayed up for all of it except for 20 minutes close to the end around 7:10 a.m.  We finally got home around 9:00 a.m. and after figuring out my mom's diet for the day got to bed around 9:30 and woke up at 2:30 p.m.  I have 975 calories planned for the rest of today.  I ate 3 clementines, light potato chips, 1 protein shake and one cupcake lastnight.  I only ate the cupcake because it was my DH's b-day and wanted to be supportive (that's my story and I'm stickin' to it).  I think that my calories should be good. 

Some of the kids at the party played hide-n-seek for hours lastnight.  My two were part of the group playing so much.  My son got to play it for the first time this year.  He is not old enough to be part of the youth group yet but his sister is this year.  So I didn't think it was very nice to have him there and not let him play the games, thank goodness no one complained.  He was excellent at hidding since he is only 56 pounds he fits just about anywhere.  Many times the kids had to give up because they didn't look for him underneath or inside a podium.  He was the only one small enough to fit in such a tiny place.

Today my DH, preacherboy was suppose to start his diet.  His sister brought him 2 dozen ginger cookies plus a plate of various other cookies yesterday.  So now he said he is going to take it upon himself to perge the house of those cookies....lol.  That was only the second time he has ever met his sister face to face, because she was adopted out as an infant.  Now I started that topic so I have to mention something else.  Preacherboys mom passed away in 1998 from brain cancer.  Her closest friend lives one block from us and preacherboy called her to see if we could bring someone over for her to meet.

When we got to the friends house and my DH introduced his sister first by name and then anounced that she was his sister, his mom's friend started crying immediately.  Which of course  made DH's sister cry too.  It turns out that this friend had been thinking a lot about how much she missed DH's mom.  Preacherboy's mom had told her friend many years ago about her daughter that she put up for adoption, and this friend had kept it a secret for all those years, but now was very happy to see that daughter.  I am sure she wished that preacherboy's mom could have been there to meet her too, but we know she is in heaven and I'm certain she is aware that her daughter is just fine.

So yesterday was perfect, emotional, mushy , fun and very long.  I can't wait to see what God has in store for 2008.

 

Looks good.. ready for Monday

I am looking forward to Monday too! Last night was rough, but I have had 5 liters of water to drink today! Oh my goodness! 2 of those liters were with Crystal Light, but that is okay! I have around a 700 calorie deficit today, so I am on the right track. Feel free to post on here during the week about random topics - you don't have to only post on Mondays. :o) Happy New Year!!!

oops,  I missed weigh in because of the hoilday,  of course im still the same :)

No worries Moxx, first weigh in is on Monday the 7th!  The weight listed is simply our starting weight. :o)

I've got to get my act together before monday. Some moron brought chocolate truffles to work and put them near my desk!! I'm going to do this people! ya'll may have to kick my butt alittle too. :)

Could you sneak over and throw them away?  Or place them somewhere else?  Or ask a co-worker to hide them really well?
You can do this!